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harpy /ˈhɑɚpi/ noun
plural harpies
harpy
/ˈhɑɚpi/
noun
plural harpies
Learner's definition of HARPY
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Harpy : an evil creature in Greek mythology that is part woman and part bird哈比(古希腊神话中半人半鸟的女妖)
: an angry and unpleasant woman : shrew泼妇;悍妇

harpy

noun

har·​py ˈhär-pē How to pronounce harpy (audio)
plural harpies
1
capitalized : a foul malign creature in Greek mythology that is part woman and part bird
2
a
: a predatory person : leech
b
: a shrewish woman

Example Sentences

in fairy tales stepmothers are often portrayed as harpies who make the lives of their stepchildren miserable having just started to make it really big in the music business, he found himself surrounded by a flock of harpies greedy for a piece of the action
Recent Examples on the Web Those kinds of sentiments have multiplied on social media, which has exploded with memes in recent days calling the four everything from terrorists to harpies to cancer. Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 27 July 2019 Others portrayed her as a harpy, a notoriously disagreeable mythical beast that was half bird-of-prey, half woman. The Economist, 9 Nov. 2019 The clergy and royal courts in days of yore used images of griffins, hellmouths, harpies, dragons and sea swine to instill fear, to divide anxious populations, to assert dominance and control, and to ostracize non-Europeans. Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 1 Sep. 2019 Elizabeth Moss, as Claire, has based her career playing sad-sacks and harpies, in Mad Men, The Square, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Her Smell; so Moss is a comic actress by default. Armond White, National Review, 9 Aug. 2019 There are fairies and nymphs, unicorns, harpies, giants, ogres, trolls, Gollums and dragons. Patti Restivo, baltimoresun.com, 14 June 2019 But maybe these women aren’t evil vixens or cold-hearted harpies. Andrea Bartz, Marie Claire, 25 Feb. 2019 Teri Terrific, as she was known among friends, was much maligned in the film industry as a harpy who exploited Ms. Shields and turned her into an unprotesting meal ticket. Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018 The Victorian fascination with madness gave us an indelible squad of deranged harpies (Miss Havisham, Bertha Rochester, Lady Audley, to name a few). Marisha Pessl, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017 See More

Word History

Etymology

Latin Harpyia, from Greek

First Known Use

1513, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of harpy was in 1513

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